Olly Moss
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| Olly Moss | |
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| Biographical information | |
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January 24, 1987 |
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Winchester, Hampshire, U.K. |
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Graphic designer |
| Time period |
August 2018 – Present[1] |
Oliver Jonathan "Olly" Moss is an English graphic designer working at Valve. Best known for his reimagining of movie posters, he designed posters and other art for Half-Life: Alyx.
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Biography[edit]
Prior to joining Valve, Moss co-founded the studio Campo Santo where he was art director for Firewatch. When Campo Santo was acquired by Valve in April 2018, he joined the team in August of the same year, along with coworker Claire Hummel who had joined in May.
Work[edit]
For Half-Life: Alyx, Moss designed the Vortigaunt propaganda posters, the matchbox labels, some of the Central Zoo posters, the Golden Lion vodka bottle label, Isaac Kleiner's book From Here to There in Under a Second, and the album artwork for the game's soundtrack.[2][3][4] He also created the concept for the game's primary cover art, which was later drawn by Chris Welch based on a sketch by Moss.[5]
Selected gameography[edit]
- Half-Life: Alyx (2020)
Gallery[edit]
Half-Life: Alyx soundtrack covers[edit]
Album artwork for the Alyx soundtrack.
Streaming service artwork for Chapter 1: Entanglement.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 1: Entanglement.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 2: Quarantine Zone.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 3: Is Or Will Be.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 4: Superweapon.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 5: The Northern Star.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 6: Arms Race.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 7: Jeff.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 8: Captivity.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 9: Revelations.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 10: Breaking and Entering.
Steam album artwork for Chapter 11: Point Extraction.
Other[edit]
Concept sketch for the primary cover artwork of Alyx, which was later drawn by Chris Welch.
Final version by Chris Welch based on Moss's sketch.
Promotional Alyx artwork for the May 2020 issue of Edge. Art by Chris Welch, concept by Olly Moss.
"Report the Vort" poster, red variant.
Clean version.
Ditto, yellow variant.
"Pest" poster.
"Lose focus, lose fingers" safety poster.
Clean version.
Billboard for the SeaFishes exhibit.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Billboard for the Tropical Bird Encounter exhibit.
Bird mosaic.
Default matchbox "Safety Matches" variant with a cat head, with its facial features made of lit matches.
Rocket variant.
Sea lion ("морской лев" in Russian) variant. The texture name uses "seal".
Beauty variant, as stated in the texture name. The text reads "спичка", Russian for "match".
Golden Lion vodka bottle.
Garfield-inspired wall clock.[source?]
Isaac Kleiner's book From Here to There in Under a Second, front.
Ditto, back.
